Controversial MS treatment will be front and centre at Canada's health ministers meet

BY ANGELA HALL, REGINA LEADER-POST AUGUST 25, 2010

REGINA — An upcoming meeting of the country's health ministers should help shed light on which provinces might be willing to fund clinical trials of an unproven treatment for multiple sclerosis, says Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris.

"I think there will be some clarity. Whether we'll all be on the same page may be a different story," said McMorris, who will go to St. John's, N.L., for the gathering next month.

After initially standing mostly alone in its pledge to finance trials of the so-called liberation procedure, the Saskatchewan Party government is now seeing interest from other provinces.

The latest is Newfoundland and Labrador, which this week indicated it would consider putting funds into a clinical trial to test the procedure — a turnabout from earlier this month when, at a meeting of the country's premiers, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was offered only moral support.

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